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ee MARINE REVIEW. a "Ship Yard Matters. Iu addition to the steel steamer Rosemount, now building in Eng- land, and which will reach the lakes in June, the Montreal Transporta- tion Co. of Kingston, will have in commission next season a new wooden schooner, the Melrose, which is now nearing completion at the com- _ pany's ship yard in Kingston. This vessel is 184 feet over all, 35 feet beam and 14 feet depth of hold. She is a three-masted vessel, built ina very substantial manner, and will be equipped with late appliances, in- cluding Providence windlass and capstan. _ The Duluth & Iron Range Railway Co., which controls the movement of vast quantities of ore f'om Two Harbors, Minn., will have in the steel tug Edna G, launched at the yard of the Cleveland Ship Building Co. Saturday, the finest craft of her kind on the lakes. The tug sustained some little damage in launching, but the injuries were not serious. This tug will be worth about $40,00) when completed. She is 100 feet over all, 23 feet beam and 13 feet depth, and has engines of 18 and 40 inches cylinder diameters, by 30 inches stroke. Steam will be furnished by a Babcock & Wilcox water tube boiler. The pilot house and quarters forward will be patterned after the houses of seagoing tugs, and the finish and furnishing of the cabin and officers' quarters will be as elaborate as that of the best freight vessel. A tug boat windlass, with iron towing Around the Lakes. A contract for releasing the stranded steamer Jim Sheriffs has been let to the Escanaba Towing & Wrecking Co. of Escanaba. ; C. F. Bielman of Detroit has contracted with the government to furnish asteam vessel for the Detroit river postal service, at $14.50 a day, May 1 is the date now fixed for the transfer of the new side-whee| steamer City of Buffalo from the Detroit Dry Dock Co. to her owners, the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. . . Capt. Thomas M. Ermatinger, who was born at Sault Ste. Marie ie ty-five years ago, and who was an employe at the canal for over forty died at his home in that place a few days ago. Managers of the Buffalo harbor tug companies, who have managed to maintain high towing charges in the past, are said te have agreed upon a reduction for the coming season of 10 per cent. off last season's charges Horn Bros., Detroit, have almost entirely rebuilt the tug Arthur Jones, recently purchased by them. She now measures 72 feet over all by 16 feet beam; draft 8% feet. The engine, 18 by 20, was built bys. p Hodge & Co., who also furnished the propeller wheel. ae The side-wheel steamer City of Milwaukee, which has been operateq between Milwaukee and Grand Haven by the Grand Trunk Railroad, wil] years, PLANS OF PACKAGE FREIGHT STEAMER BEING BUILT BY UNION DRY DOCK CO., BUFFALO, FOR UNION STEAMBOAT CO. bitts and steam gypsey, will be furnished by the American Ship Windlass Co. Advices from the ship yard of the American Steel Barge Co., West Superior, are to the effect that about 900 men are now employed, chiefly on the construction of the four new freight vessels, two of which are for Mr. John D. Rockefeller and two for the bargecompany. About 150 men are engaged on repair work, and the same number on structural iron work and on iron ore spouts for the new Lake Superior shipping docks. It is expected that a breaking up of the ice during the coming week will permit of operations at the dry dock. Quite a few vessels are ready to go into the dock as soon as they can be accommodated. It is unfortunate thaton account of the great thickness of ice that forms in Superior harbor it is not available for service during the winter. Deck plans and a side elevation plan of the new package freight steamer that is being built for the Union Steamboat Co. by the Union Dry Dock Company at Buffalo are reproduced in an engraving that ap- pears on this page. This is not one of the 400-foot type ot ships, as she is intended for package freight business between Chicago and Buffalo, a trade which involves rapid handling of ships in crowded harbors at both ends of the route. In other respects, however, this steamer will be a first class freight carrier, as she will be fitted' with triple expansion engines and the latest appliances for rapid handling of freight. She will prob- ably not be ready for service until June. next season run between Chicago and St. Joe. She has been chartered by the Graham & Morton Transportation Co. Transfers of vessel property: Tug Calumet, Vessel Owners' Towing Co. of Chicago, to Graham & Helmert of Marquette, $5,100; schooner John Jewett, John Stone of Detroit to Theodore Marchand, $1,200; schooner Young America, Grummond estate to James Caldwell of Toledo. Andrew Glover, Mount Albion, Ont., is another inventor who propo- ses to raise the steamer Pewabic, sunk near Alpena, lake Huron, thirty- five years ago with a cargo of copper ore. He hasa diving apparatus in which he has great faith, and has written Capt. Geo. P. McKay of Cleve- land, who was in command of the Pewabic, for information as to the pro- bable location of the wreck. The steamer Alcona, Capt. Geo. B. Brock, has been undergoing repairs and improvements, including a fire box boiler that is probably the largest of its kind ever built on the lakes. The boiler was built by the' River Machine Works, Cleveland, and is 10 feet 6 inches in diameter, by 17 feet length; allowed 150 pounds pressure. On preliminary trial the British torpedo boat destroyer Desperate, just completed by the Thornycrofts, has excelled all previous records by attain- ing a mean speed for four runs on the measured mile of 31.035 knots, "or 3534 statute miles. The Desperate is the first of the boats for which 30 knots was guaranteed.